Dread Horn - What did we do wrong?

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So yesterday night my friend and I took our sampires to try and take on Dread Horn - the keys including Irk went off without a hitch with us both beating on them. He was using a war fork with HML/HSL/SSI and I was using a diamond mace with HML/HLD/SSI, both with decent suits and 150+ stam. However, when we got into Dread Horn we would stand toe to toe with him for about a minute until he mana dumped and completely obliterated us. I wasn't using curse weapon, as I'd heard the vampire form would be enough for life leech - I tried keeping up counter attack, evasion, confidence, chugging pots, anything that might keep me alive longer but nothing seemed to work. Where exactly did I go wrong?

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I've never solo'd DH, but what I think may have gone wrong is that only one person can honor, therefore one of you wont be doing the high amounts of damage you get with honor. Because of this you will not be leeching as much HP to keep you alive, so Vamp Form wont be enough on its own to keep you alive.

You also mention you don't have any HSL on your diamond mace. Each time you get hit, your stam is going to go down and so will your swing speed so you wont hit as often. If your not hitting, your not leeching, if your not leeching your dead.

If your going to two man DH, both of you stone necro for healing and xheal each other; this I have done a few times and it works great.

Also, if you both have the mace and shield glasses, you both have the HLD mod, imo, to also have it on your weapon is a bit of a waste, and HLA would be a better replacement.

As I said, I have never solo'd DH, so there are better people around then me to give you advise, but those are my opinions, hope they help

Swap Anatomy for Resist, with his area debuff and curse (if they stack) thats got to be like -40 stats?

The Fencer should use a Spear or Leafblade, preferably the Leafblade as he can then use Feint to half the damage DH does, it lasts about 5 seconds so combined with Evasion should make things easier.

Whoevers doing the most damage should stand directly on top of DH and the other guy right next to but not on top of.

2 Sampires aren't really a good combination as only one can honor it. The best 2 person combination I've used for DH is 1 Sampire and 1 Discord Mage, the Discord Mage doesn't attack and just Discords and pre casts Arch Cure for the Sampire. If the support character does attack with summons or whatever then they will get teleported and attacked.

The other option would be to both convert to bandages and xheal each other. I think it's 2 seconds for healing someone else.

Use Greater Strength potions for more damage & 10 HP.
Use Greater Agility potions and Stam Increase on your suits so that your stamina is over 150 and doesn't dip below easily.
Use Total Refresh potions instead of Divine Fury to avoid the 10 DCI penalty.

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1) you must honor to get damage output high enough to life leach sufficiently. if two man, whomever gets the honor in must be the meat shield
2) hsl / hml are musts on weapons (hsl to restore swing speed b/c stam will get dropped whenever you get hit, hml to spam lightning strike which is a must especially to build up perfection / damage)
3) you must have max dci (i haven't been able to solo dread with an assassin suit, even with 35 dci, just get hit too often)
4) buff up as much as possible. i use strength / dex potions, purple petals, and balm of strength. those few points make a big difference
5) all 70s is a must. different places just say it's physical / poison damage, but i don't think that includes damage from spells

also, i have tried using fencing weapons to solo dread, but eventually just went back to my twink and ornate. i found the fencing weapons just didn't hit hard enough / leach enough.

2 cannot do only one because of the other not honoring for higher damage. and just to let u know my sampire has only 34 dci and i solo him everyday so it is possible. max dci is not absolutely necissary but does make things easier......heck one time he caught me with the stat debuff before i put str pot up and my fey leggings came off and i didnt notice...hence reducing my dci to 14....and i still hung in there with him for bout 5 min until i noticed he was doing more damage and i looked over to see my leggings in my pack lol. Also i run the sampire template with healing so i dunno how that differs from u guys that dont.

i dont run protection cause it lowers magic resist.
i use mace and shields , storm grips , fey leggings, rune beatle carapace
neck and sleeves have high fire high poison lots of stamina and mana.
43 dci , 34 hci 70 70 69 70 75for resists
you can go either way wraith form or vampire just keep him honared and e01and ull do fine go ahead and curse ur wep when you get low on health.

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If you want to two-man the Dread Horn, may I suggest using healing instead of necromancy? Combined with liberal use of cure potions (no vamp form FTW) and two second bandages, it makes it a lot easier.

I've also done it with a sampire and a wrestle-mage, but the mage was pretty ineffective, spending more time not getting killed than actually doing damage.

First of all u shouldnt be using a soul seeker for everything.....if ur swords then its ornate axe or rune blade..the only mods that r a must r hsl hml ssi di
My template is necro with healing but u need right mods and right gear with the right resists...

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